Not long ago, obesity was popularly considered a disease of affluence — the product of excess and overindulgence. Today, obesity is increasingly recognized as a disease of poverty, rooted in ...

Developing Farmer Lifeline Technologies required a lot time and sacrifice. Kimani had to tap into her personal savings to ...

Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights’ thematic report on “Welfare and Control: The Paternalism of Support,” ...

Low-income older Americans on average die nearly a decade earlier than wealthier people, a new analysis finds.

CLEVELAND, Ohio - More than half of children live in poverty in four Ohio cities, including East Cleveland. In another 33 cities, the child poverty rate is at least 33%, according to new estimates ...